Comparison of the Performance of the SANN, SARIMA and ARIMA Models for Forecasting Quarterly GDP of Nigeria
Chukwudike C. Nwokike, Emmanuel W. Okereke
Asian Research Journal of Mathematics · pp. 1–20 · Published 10 May 2021
10.9734/arjom/2021/v17i330280Abstract
This research aimed at modelling and forecasting the quarterly GDP of Nigeria using the Seasonal Artificial Neural Network (SANN), SARIMA and Box-Jenkins models as well as comparing their predictive performance. The three models mentioned earlier were successfully fitted to the data set. Tentative architecture for the SANN was suggested by varying the number of neurons in the hidden layer while that of the input and output layer remained constant at 4. It was observed that the best architecture was when the hidden layer had 10 neurons and thus SANN (4-10-4) was chosen as the best. In fitting the ARIMA/SARIMA models, the Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) test was used to check for stationarity. Variance stabilization and Stationarity were achieved after logarithm transformation and first regular differencing. The ARIMA/SARIMA model with lowest AIC, BIC and HQIC values was chosen as the best amongst the competing models and fitted to the data. The adequacy of the fitted models was confirmed observing the correlogram of the residuals and the Ljung-Box Chi-Squared test result. The SANN model performed better than the SARIMA and ARIMA models as it had a Mean Squared Error value of 0.004 while SARIMA and ARIMA had mean squared errors of 0.527 and 0.705 respectively. It was concluded that the SANN which is a non-linear model be used in modelling the quarterly GDP of Nigeria. Hybrid models which combine the strength of individual models are recommended for further research.
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